Haatim Amiri

Haatim Amiri (18 May 1943-2 June 1978) was a leader of the South Lebanon Army during the Lebanese Civil War.

Biography
Haatim Amiri was born in 1943 in Byblos, Lebanon to a family of Catholic Maronites. He was an officer in the Lebanese Army until the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War, when he defected to the South Lebanon Army to fight against the Palestine Liberation Organization and the other terrorist groups in South Lebanon. Amiri led the SLA in massacring Palestinians and Muslims, and he was assassinated in 1978 in a gun attack on his house by Palestinian gunmen.